Format:
1 Online-Ressource.
Edition:
Online-Ausg Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
978-1-136-83854-5
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978-1-283-04116-4
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series 25
Content:
This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Soviet Oriental tradition was deeply linked to politics - probably even more than other European 'Orientalisms'. It breaks new ground by providing Western and post-Soviet insider views especially on the features that set Soviet Oriental studies apart from what we know about its Western counterparts: for example, the involvement of scholars in state-supported anti-Islamic agitation; the early and strong integratio
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Band 25 der Reihe "Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe studies". - in der Vorlage nicht ersichtlich.
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the heritage of Soviet Oriental studies: Stephan Conermann; 1. Introduction: integrating Soviet Oriental Studies: Michael Kemper; Part I: Metropolitan Oriental studies; 2. The imperial roots of Soviet Orientology: David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye; 3. Profiles under pressure: Orientalists in Petrograd/Leningrad, 1918-1956: Mikhail Rodionov Front Cover; The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword
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Nikolai Marr and the Oriental Department of the State Public Library in Leningrad: Aleksei Asvaturov5. The contribution of Oriental scholarship to the Soviet anti-Islamic discourse: from the Militant Godless to the Knowledge Society: Vladimir Bobrovnikov; 6. Soviet Kurdology and Kurdish Orientalism: Michiel Leezenberg; 7. Evgenii M. Primakov: Arabist and KGB middleman, director and statesman: Mikhail Roshchin; 8. The Leningrad/St. Petersburg School of Scientific Islamology: Stanislav M. Prozorov 4. Between the "language of humanity" and latinizatsiia
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the search for a new Soviet Interpretation of political Islam in 1980: Hanna E. Jansen and Michael Kemper10. Scholars, advisers and state-builders: Soviet Afghan studies in light of present-day Afghan development: Anna R. Paterson; Part II: Oriental studies and national historiography in the republics; 11. The struggle for the reestablishment of Oriental studies in twentieth-century Kazan: Mirkasym A. Usmanov; 12. Arabic historical studies in twentieth-century Dagestan: Amri R. Shikhsaidov 9. Hijacking Islam
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imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet scholars studying Tajikistan: Lisa Yountchi14. Conceiving a people's history: the 1920-1936 discourse on the Kazakh past: Zifa-Alua Auezova; 15. Ahmad Yasavi and the Divan-i hikmat in Soviet scholarship: Devin Deweese; 16. Kyrgyz - Muslim - Central Asian? Recent approaches to the study of Kyrgyz culture in Kyrgyzstan:Till Mostowlansky; 17. The transformation of Azerbaijani Orientalists into Islamic thinkers after 1991: Altay Goyushov, Naomi Caffee and Robert Denis; Index 13. The politics of scholarship and the scholarship of politics
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-415-59977-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203832752
Author information:
Conermann, Stephan, 1964-
Author information:
Kemper, Michael, 1966-
